"Deck Guardian" myth?

SphinYote

So the question is, even if you find the belief ridiculous, what can you take from it that's positive?

If you believe everything has it's own energy (I'm on the fence on this, as a lot of people here might know from reading previous posts), then the idea of a guardian or a spirit might seem rather reasonable.

If you believe that energy can be shaped, you might even will the deck to respond based on certain notions of the angle of your interests in asking questions.

While I do think this limits the use of those three cards, the idea of a way to tell, a given card that shows up when something isn't to be known, well, that isn't a bad idea. So if you were to implement the notion of some way of telling when not to do a reading, what would be a way of doing this? Perhaps instead, one could create a deck with an added card for this purpose.

How you implement it? Well, you could stop an entire reading.....that seems excessive to me personally.....but you could also take it and accept that when it falls in a certain position in a spread, then that particular aspect is to remain unknown, or perhaps is so fluid it can't be known at this time.

Just some thoughts.

Yote
 

gregory

If my deck has a Guardian it is DEATH. That is the card I relate to, which speaks to me... so.....

Does this mean I won't be reading in Poland any time soon ?
 

Yurikome

I don't know, gregory, are you coming around this way? :)
Might be the "specialists" won't accept you as a reader *rolls eyes*

I see how people might feel something is guiding their readings. Especially if it's a real heart&soul deck, like nisaba's Granny Jones. If someone has toiled and really put all they had into creating a deck, I suppose there will be an echo of them in your experience.
I also can see how people who believe and practice these kinds of things (and are therefore more knowledgeable than me in this area) may try to convince a certain spirit to work with them via this medium.

But what exactly is the spirit of the Fool?
Even if we extend this to all the Majors, it's still your choice which one becomes the "Guardian". I was wondering what the rationalization is there - do they interpret everything as if told from the Guardian's perspective? That is, tilting towards certain meanings of the cards (that would have been different if seen from the viewpoint of another guardian?). Or is it just assuming that whatever I've just seen in the cards is the rational answer (if it's from the Magician), no matter what I see there...
Or is it more of an emotional thing? You know, feeling better about not taking all the responsibility for your words, because, after all it was the High Priestess telling you this?
Or an attempt to contact your subconscious? "Look here, I'd really like you to consider all the LOGICAL options here, right?" or "for once, open up and look WITHIN you, 'k? It's allowed here."
 

Grizabella

Maybe you could ask on that forum and then bring us the results. :) I think it's kind of an interesting idea to play with just for fun. A different approach to reading. I don't think I'd subscribe to it, but think of the new slant it might give your readings to see them through the eyes of a certain Major card or even through the eyes of the court cards.
 

SphinYote

Grizabella said:
Maybe you could ask on that forum and then bring us the results. :) I think it's kind of an interesting idea to play with just for fun. A different approach to reading. I don't think I'd subscribe to it, but think of the new slant it might give your readings to see them through the eyes of a certain Major card or even through the eyes of the court cards.

Maybe create a new position in the spread, where the significance of the position is "In what light should I understand this reading?"
 

halimah

Pick a deck by the question.

Just a thought. Maybe they generally have at least one deck with each of the 3 options? And then select the deck that seems to match where the questions is coming from. Like if its a mental question and you want a mentalish answer select the deck guarded by the magician. Fool - Emotional? High Priestess - Spiritual?

I doubt they actually stop reading totally if the guardian shows up. They probably just step back and think, is this the right question? Then come up with something slightly different and reshuffle. there are definately times when the problem is Not the answer, but that you weren't asking the right question! :)

I don't think I would go this route, but maybe there's more to it that what is initially apparent.
 

ScaryFairy

It's definitely an interesting idea, having a guardian card - a bit like a soul card, really, except for the deck. However, I don't understand why the guardian MUST be The Fool, The Magician or The High Priestess. It was written in a book and now it's "the rule"?

And stopping the reading when the guardian comes up... heh. Whatever floats your boat.
 

Yurikome

SphinYote - I really like that idea!

halimah - nope, some people have one deck for each guardian, others have all decks devoted to one, with one exception, so...

I dug a bit deeper. Some people look for the guardian while cutting the cards, before the readings. And they stop before the reading has a chance to commence - because (and opinions vary) - the sitter is probably not ready for the answer the cards were about to give, or the cards are "tired" (?), or "don't want to talk" (as it would be the card facing the table after the cut, "closing" the deck off, "Guarding" it)...

It's an old thread, but I'll see if I can revive it. Maybe at least get them to quote the original author's reasons...
 

Aladdin

Yuricome,
This 'feels' to me a bit like our part of the UK before the switchover to digital television from the the old, limited analogue broadcasting network signal. We now have an enriched spectrum of rubbish freely available. Respectfully i suggest that your localised Polish community needs to dump constricted ideas like this if they are going to entice others into free thinking card reading.
As we say in England, a load of 'cobblers' !
 

gregory

Aladdin - can you say more about what you mean ? As one in the first area of the UK to be FORCED to go digital, I don't get it.....